Historical info on how 'x.com' came to be registered

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Does anyone have any historical information on how ‘x.com’ came to be registered even though single letters were reserved?

Is there a story or is it as simple as it was registered prior to the reservation?

Just wondering.

Thanks,

-Drew

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December 99. Grandfathered

–srs

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You are probably familiar with the reservation of single letter and
digit TLDs:

The full names of the previous owners are listed in an archive of a
crawl from 1996:

http://web.archive.org/web/19961219022100/http://x.com/

One of them may be able to describe how they bought it.

    Mukund

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Right - and x.com was first registered in 1993.

Anne

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It appears that Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com> said:

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Does anyone have any historical information on how 'x.com' came to be registered even though single letters were reserved?

Is there a story or is it as simple as it was registered prior to the reservation?

Here's a story about its history. It's very old, from 1992.

R's,
John

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It appears that Drew Weaver <drew.weaver@thenap.com> said:

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Does anyone have any historical information on how 'x.com' came to be registered even though single letters were reserved?

Is there a story or is it as simple as it was registered prior to the reservation?

Here's a story about its history. It's very old, from 1992.

The Colorful History of X.com (Aka the website formerly known as Twitter)

Interesting and informative one.
Who knows ‘q’ and ‘z’ nowadays ??

Regards,
Gaurav